Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
VOL. 146. FEBRUARY 25, 1914.
CHARIVARIA. THE GERMAN CROWN PRINCE the mumps. It has seems that his Imperial Father was not consulted in the matter beforehand, and further domestic differences are anticipated.
KING SISOVATH Cambodia, we learn from ofLe Petit Journal, was so pleased with a white elephant sent him by the Governor-General of French Indo-China that he has raised the animal—a fine female—to the dignity of a Princess. The news soon got about, and
considerable jealousy is felt at our Zoo, whereCLOSE OF THE there is not so much as even a baronet amongCOURSING SEASON. the inmates.
GeneralVON PLETTENBURGH, commanding the Prussian Guards Corps, has issued a decree against the wearing of the so-called "tooth-brush" moustache, pointing out that such an appendage is unsuitable for a Prussian soldier and "not consonant with the German national character." The implication is very unpleasant.
"It is generally reported," says a contemporary, "that Sir EDWARDGREYspeaks no German, and French very badly. M. VENIZELOS, the Greek Prime Minister, declared that he had the greatest difficulty in understanding Sir EDWARD'S French." As a matter of fact a little bird tells us that on this occasion our Foreign Secretary was speaking Greek.
"Mr. Asquith," saidThe Timesto the Liberal candidate for South, "in a massage Bucks, emphasizes the prime importance of the Irish issue." There is, of course, nothing like massage for rubbing things in.
Herr BALLIN H, head of the Hamburg-American Line, and HerrEINEKEN, head of the rival North-German Lloyd Company, came to London last week, and are said to have concluded peace in the Atlantic rate war. We understand that the arrangement is to be known as the Pool of London.
The authorities at Barotse,The Globetells us, have put a price on the heads of all lions there. One can picture the mean sportsman, with a pair of field-glasses, picking out the cheapest before firing.
"61,000 TERRITORIALSSHORT." Daily Mail. Still, it is pretty generally recognised now that a small man may make every bit as good a soldier as a big one, and, besides, there is always less of him to hit.
Among the temporary teachers appointed to carry on schools in Herefordshire during the teachers' strike was an asylum attendant. This confirms the report that many of the children were mad at finding that the schools did not close in consequence of the strike.
It is denied that the name of the Philharmonic Hall, where Mr. PONTING'Smoving pictures of the Antarctic Expedition are being shown, is to be changed to the Philmharmonic Hall.
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RICHARD STRAUSS'S work, dealing with the story, of new JOSEPH and POTIPHAR'S wife, is to be produced shortly in Paris. A musical play version of it, entitled "After the Man," may be looked for here.
From Rome comes the news that a young man who was being examined in a hospital there has been found to have two separate stomachs. This announcement that the ideal man has at last been evolved has caused the greatest excitement here in Corporation circles.
. "LYCEUM CLUB 100YEARS OF PEACE."
Daily Telegraph. Surely a record for a lady's club?
"CHANGE OFNAME. FROM JACOBGALBAIWUSHUKU-BRIGHT TO GALBAIWUCHUKUOLUKOTUN." Sierra Leone Weekly News. We notice no improvement.
Commercial Candour. Notice in a shop window at Reading: "TRY——'SSAUSAGES:NONE LIKE'EM."
CIVIL WAR ESTIMATES. (A Ministerial Apology.) Your talk is vanity, you who lightly vouch That we, indifferent to the country's call, shun A crisis under which the People crouch Like DAMOCLESbeneath the pendent falchion; That from our minds, incredibly deluded, Ulster is still excluded. It is not so. All day (between our meals) We find this topic really most attractive; In watches of the night it often steals Into our waking dreams, and keeps us active,
Like sportsmen whom the rude mosquito chases, Trying to save our faces. But we have other tasks, and "Duty First" Must be our cry before we yield to Pleasure; Our Annual Estimates must be rehearsed Ere more alluring themes engage our leisure; The Budget's claims are urgent; Ulster's fate Can obviously wait. Besides, no Government should go to war Without the wherewithal to pay for forage, For ammunition and a Flying Corps And cannéd meats to stimulate the courage; And this applies, as far as we can tell, To civil wars as well. For, though our foes confine us to a sphere Of relatively narrow operations, We are advised that they may cost us dear, And therefore, in our coming calculations, As Trustees of the Race we dare not miss To estimate for this. Hence these delays—all carefully thought out. But when from hibernation we emerge on The vernal prime and things begin to sprout, Our Ulster policy shall also burgeon; With sap of April coursing through our blood We too shall burst in bud. O. S.
THE GREAT RESIGNER.
(A Forecast.)
March, 1914. Mr. WILLIAM O'BRIEN describes Mr. JOHN REDMOND as "brother to the middle-aged sea-serpent from the County Clare." Mr. JOHNREDMONDdenies that he is a sea-serpent. Mr. WILLIAMO'BRIENdenounced this denial as "the last effort, having of a defeated dastard," resigns his seat for Cork City. Mr. O'BRIENis re-elected without a contest. April, 1914. M r . WILLIAM O'RBIEN in an impassioned speech advocates
conciliation all round in Ireland, and refers to Mr. JOHN REDMOND as "a moth-eaten, moss-gathering malingerer of unparalleled ferocity." Mr. REDMONDis seen to smile. Mr. O'BRIENnever been so much insulted in, declaring that he has his life, resigns his seat for Cork City. Mr. O'BRIENis re-elected without a contest. May, 1914. An Alderman of Cork fails to take off his hat to Mr. O'BRIEN. Mr. O'BRIEN summonsa meeting of his supporters and, in a five-hours' speech, states that, in spite of the unexampled infamy of Mr. REDMOND, he will never abandon his efforts for Irish unity. Mr. REDMONDsays nothing. Mr. O'BRIEN states that "the truckling truculence of a mock-modest monster of meretricious mendacity cannot be allowed to prevail against a policy of sober and sympathetic silence." Mr. REDMONDhaving abstained from a reply, Mr. O'BRIENresigns his seat for Cork City and is shortly afterwards re-elected without a contest. June, 1914. Mr. ASQUITH, in moving the Second Reading of the Home Rule Bill, does not mention Mr. O'BRIEN, who swoons in his place and is carried speechless from the House of Commons. On the following day Mr. O'BRIENissues to the world a manifesto of 60,000 words, in which he describes Mr. REDMOND "a palsied as purveyor of pledge-breaking platitudes," and announces that the Irish question can be settled only by the good will of men of all parties. Mr. REDMONDtakes no notice. M r . O'BRIEN declares that he can no longer pursue a policy of conciliation and mildness, and resigns his seat for Cork City as a protest against the "frenzied flaunting of flattery and folly" in which, he says, Mr. REDMONDspends his time. Mr. O'BRIEN, having been re-elected without a contest, immediately re-resigns twelve times in advance.
CINEMA NEWS.
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Final preparations have now been made to film Mr. THORNTON'S day as first General Manager of the Great Eastern Railway. By kind permission of Lord CLAUD HAMILTON representatives of all the other railway companies are to be present to take notes, like the foreign military attachés in a war. A good "movie" should result.
Another film which should provide entertainment and instruction in the highest degree is the "Day in the Life of Mr. C. K.HSORTER" which is now being arranged for. The great critic will be followed hour by hour with faithful persistence. He will be seen editingThe Spherewith one hand and putting all the writing fellows in their place with the other. He will be seen in that wonderful library of his which covers two acres in St. John's Wood, reading, annotating and correcting; he will be seen at lunch at his club with other intellectual kings, his intimate friends; shaking hands with Mr. HARDY; entering a taxi; leaving a taxi and paying the fare; dining with Sir W. ROBERTSONNICOLL; attending a first night and applauding only when applause is merited; and finally returning home to read more books. In all, about fourteen miles.
It will be regretfully learned by the great public, always ready for new thrillers, that all efforts to induce Mr. BALFOURto part with the cinema rights of his Gifford lectures have failed.
"In consequence of the farm labourers and carters employed on various farms in the parish and village of Chitterne having come out on strike, work of all kinds, with the exception of lambing, is at a complete standstill."—Bath and Wilts Chronicle. These black-leg ewes!
"Mr. Kipling, who met with a warm deception."—Daily Graphic. Not a bit of it. Everyone was frankly delighted to see and hear him.
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THE THRONE PERILOUS. AUSTRIA AND ITALY (to the new Ruler of Albania). "BE SEATED, SIR."
Mother (to her boy, who has just struck his little sister with his Teddy bear). "WHY DID YOU HIT YOUR SISTER IN THE FACE, JOHN?" John."'COS IT WAS THE ONLY PART OF HERICOULD SEE."
MUSICAL DIAGNOSIS.
DR. JAMES CANTLIEplacing of a tuning-fork; against the has reported that "the body of a patient enables him to gauge the limits of the liver with almost hair-breadth precision." He believes that musical diagnosis will prove reliable in the case of broken bones, and asserts that already it has been proved that a fatty liver gives out tones distinct from a cirrhosed liver. A superb performance of Herr RICHARD STRAUSS'S "German Measles Concerto" was given last night by the Queen's Hall orchestra. The tempo was throughout wonderfully high. The three fine solo passages for the left kidney were finely rendered; while the exquisitediminuendo convalescence with which the to
work concludes greatly impressed a neurotic audience. The tuning-fork test has proved that several of the most popular of recent rag-time tunes were originally scored by the brain of a patient who had met with a severe concussion while attempting to escape over the high wall of an Asylum for Incurable Idiots. An interesting incident is reported in the Medical press from a well-known Nursing Home. It appears that one of the female attendants, on applying the tuning-fork to what was alleged to be the broken heart of a patient, was astonished to obtain as response the first five bars of "You Made Me Love You." The case has, we learn, been since discharged cured.
NUPTIAL NOVELTIES.
["Two prominent members of the Herne Bay Angling Association were married on Saturday afternoon at St. Martin's Church, Herne Bay. An interesting feature of the wedding was the assembly of members of the association, who lined the pathway to the church door and formed an archway of fishing-rods, to which silver horseshoes had been attached. The bridegroom's father is not only president of the angling association, but captain of the Herne Bay Fire Brigade, members of which formed a guard of honour with crossed hatchets."—Daily Chronicle.] The nuptials of Mr. Desmond Waddilove and Miss Esther Priddie, whose parents are prominently implicated in the milk trade, were marked by several interesting and appropriate spectacular incidents. A specially attractive feature was the progress of the wedding procession between a double row of milk-cans. Later on the bride and bridegroom left for Cowes (I.W.) amid a volley of pats of butter deftly hurled by the officials of the Sursum Corda Dairy Company, Ltd. Last Saturday the wedding of Mr. Nestor Young and Miss Leonora Dargle was celebrated with greatéclatat St. Mark's, Datchet. Out of respect for the calling of the bride's father all the wedding party proceeded to the sacred edifice in bath-chairs, which imparted to the ceremony an air of solemnity too often neglected at up-to-date weddings. The bridegroom's father being a leading pork-butcher, imitation sausages formed part of the trimmings of the bride's going-away dress. Mr. Donald MacLurkin, the golf professional of the Culbin Sands Golf Club, was married last Friday at Lossiemouth to Miss Janet Sutor, of Cromarty. A charming effect was produced by a guard of honour, composed of members of the golf club, holding aloft crossed brassies, beneath which the happy pair passed into the church, while the caddies clashed niblicks and other iron clubs. The bride wore a cream silk bogey skirt, slightly caught up so as to show the
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pink dots of the stymied underskirt, and a simple Dunlop V corsage. A dainty little pot-bunker hat completed a costume as novel as it was natty.
THE ROYALISTS.
Eight of us travel up to town every morning by the Great Suburban Railway. I have no politics. Gibbs is a Unionist Free Trader. Three of the others are Radicals and three Unionists. On one side of the compartment are rangedThe Daily Mail,The Daily Express andThe Daily Telegraph. Boldly confronting them are twoDaily Chroniclesand aDaily News. Gibbs contents himself with aDaily Graphic, while I choose every day the paper with the least sensational placard.
You can imagine what the journeys are like. Filmer will put down hisDaily Express say with feeling, "If I could only get that infernal Welsher by the and throat." Then Rodgers will lay down hisDaily News sneer, "What has and aggravated the toadies of the Dukes to-day?" In a moment the battle is in full swing. Bennett breaks in with assertions that peace and unity will never prevail till the Cabinet has been hanged. Chalmers makes a mild proposal for the imprisonment of the Armament Ring which is gnawing at the country's vitals. And when there has been a by-election and both sides claim the moral victory I have no doubt that the men in signal-boxes think that murder is taking place in our carriage.
However, one day Filmer made a reference to Marconi speculations which caused Rodgers to shake the dust from his feet (an easy thing on the Great Suburban line) and leave the compartment at the next station. Then Chalmers and Simcox bore down on Filmer with statistics about our booming trade. When we reached the next station, Filmer darted out of the compartment, declining to travel any longer with a set of miserable Cobdenite Little Englanders. I was horrified—not at the absence of Rodgers and Filmer, which could have been endured—but at the idea that the gaps they left in the carriage might be tilled up by even worse persons than politicians. Suppose golfers took their places. On one occasion, when Gibbs had influenza, an intruder had described to us the fixing of a new carburettor to his car.
Then the great idea came to me—the formation of the Society. The next morning I went up to Filmer and Rodgers as they stood apart from us and each other on the platform and said, "Come to the others for a moment. They want to apologise to you."
They didn't, but sometimes one has to choose between the cause of peace and that of truth.
"Gentlemen," I said, "I have noticed this. Nearly all our little controversies begin in one way. Somebody says, 'I call a spade a spade and BONARLAW (or LLOYD GEORGE) a lying, treacherous scoundrel.' I propose that we form ourselves into the Society for Not Calling a Spade a Spade."
"What do you propose to call it? 'A Royal'?" This from Gibbs, who is a master of auction brid e.
"He is onl a tame duck who with shee ish timidit attem ts to
MacBull. "ISHALL BE A GAY GRASS WIDOWER FOR THE NEXT TWO MONTHS —WIFE'S GONE FOR A HOLIDAY TO THE WESTINDIES." O'Bear."JAMAICA?" MacBull."NO,IT WAS HER OWN IDEA."
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controvert the determination of a body of frontiersmen from their purpose by firing at them with a water squirt." Bulawayo Chronicle. It sounds more like a wild duck.
From Publishers' Announcements:— "'BORROWEDTHOUGHTS' . (A Handbook for Lent, with an Introduction by a popular Bishop.) Limp, 9d."
"Lot 3. Extra Dry, Cuvée Beservée, 60/-. A really excellent pure Wine, which we bought lying abroad." We trust they won't sell it lying at home.
"Generally crime is normal and no increase in mortality is reported. Little wandering, emigration, or emaciation is noticed. Cattle are being sold in large numbers in Hamirpur. Blankets are being distributed to the poor. (For other Sporting News see page 8)." Advocate of India. There is nothing narrow about the sporting tastes of our Oriental contemporary.
Larry."TRESHPASSING,IS UT? JUST WAIT TILL WE GITHOMERULE. IVERY MAN'LL DO AS HE LIKES THIN—AND THIM'S THAT WON'T'LL BE MADE TO!"
THE INVADERS.
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